Fleeing Iran

A stranded Iranian migrant has his lips sewn as he sits on rail tracks at the border between Greece and Macedomore

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2015年 11月 23日 Monday

A stranded Iranian migrant has his lips sewn as he sits on rail tracks at the border between Greece and Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni November 23, 2015. A dozen Iranian migrants are on hunger-strike following the denial of passage by Macedonian authorities. Balkan countries have begun filtering the flow of migrants to Europe, granting passage to those fleeing conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan but turning back others from Africa and Asia, the United Nations and Reuters witnesses said. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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A stranded Iranian woman embraces her daughter as hundreds of migrants line up during food distribution at themore

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2015年 11月 25日 Wednesday

A stranded Iranian woman embraces her daughter as hundreds of migrants line up during food distribution at the Greek-Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idomeni November 25, 2015. European countries are stretched to their limits in the refugee crisis and cannot take in any more new arrivals, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was quoted as saying in a German newspaper. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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A stranded Iranian migrant has his lips sewn as he sits on rail tracks at the border between Greece and Macedomore

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2015年 11月 24日 Tuesday

A stranded Iranian migrant has his lips sewn as he sits on rail tracks at the border between Greece and Macedonia in front of Macedonian riot police near the Greek village of Idomeni November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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An Iranian migrant cries next to his son and wife moments after a small group of exhausted migrants from Iran more

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2015年 8月 15日 Saturday

An Iranian migrant cries next to his son and wife moments after a small group of exhausted migrants from Iran arrive by paddling an engineless dinghy from the Turkish coast (seen in the background) at a beach on the Greek island of Kos August 15, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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Stranded Iranian migrants sit on rail tracks at the border between Greece and Macedonia near the Greek villagemore

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2015年 11月 24日 Tuesday

Stranded Iranian migrants sit on rail tracks at the border between Greece and Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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Iranian refugee Youssef, 33-years-old, sits along a road close to the "new jungle" in Calais, France, October more

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2015年 10月 3日 Saturday

Iranian refugee Youssef, 33-years-old, sits along a road close to the "new jungle" in Calais, France, October 3, 2015. Youssef, with his feet wrapped in pieces cut from clothing, reportedly walked 10 kilometers through the Channel Tunnel overnight, before being stopped by police and security. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

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An Iranian refugee and his daughter, pending temporary documentation, sit at the port of the Greek island of Kmore

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2015年 8月 11日 Tuesday

An Iranian refugee and his daughter, pending temporary documentation, sit at the port of the Greek island of Kos August 10, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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Stranded Iranian migrants sleep on rail tracks at the border between Greece and Macedonia in front of Macedonimore

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2015年 11月 24日 Tuesday

Stranded Iranian migrants sleep on rail tracks at the border between Greece and Macedonia in front of Macedonian riot police near the Greek village of Idomeni November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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An Iranian migrant is escorted back to Greece by Macedonian policemen after he tried to cross Greece's border more

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2015年 11月 19日 Thursday

An Iranian migrant is escorted back to Greece by Macedonian policemen after he tried to cross Greece's border with Macedonia illegally, near the Macedonian town of Gevgelija, November 19, 2015. REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis

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Stranded Iranian migrants on hunger strike, some with their lips sewn together, sit on rail tracks at the bordmore

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2015年 11月 25日 Wednesday

Stranded Iranian migrants on hunger strike, some with their lips sewn together, sit on rail tracks at the borderline between Greece and Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni November 25, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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A stranded Iranian migrant sits on a railway track at the Greek-Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idmore

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2015年 11月 25日 Wednesday

A stranded Iranian migrant sits on a railway track at the Greek-Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idomeni, November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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An exhausted Iranian migrant drinks water moments after a small group of migrants from Iran arrived by paddlinmore

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2015年 8月 15日 Saturday

An exhausted Iranian migrant drinks water moments after a small group of migrants from Iran arrived by paddling an engineless dinghy from the Turkish coast (seen in the background) at a beach on the Greek island of Kos August 15, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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Stranded Iranian migrants sit on rail tracks at the border between Greece and Macedonia in front of Macedonianmore

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2015年 11月 23日 Monday

Stranded Iranian migrants sit on rail tracks at the border between Greece and Macedonia in front of Macedonian riot police near the Greek village of Idomeni November 23, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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Stranded Iranian migrants block rail tracks during a protest at the border between Greece and Macedonia near tmore

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2015年 11月 24日 Tuesday

Stranded Iranian migrants block rail tracks during a protest at the border between Greece and Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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A group of migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran rest on the side of a road after crossing the border imore

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2015年 7月 30日 Thursday

A group of migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran rest on the side of a road after crossing the border illegally from Serbia, near Asotthalom, Hungary July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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A stranded Iranian migrant baby is seen in front of Macedonian riot police at the border between Greece and Mamore

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2015年 11月 25日 Wednesday

A stranded Iranian migrant baby is seen in front of Macedonian riot police at the border between Greece and Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni November 25, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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A Turkish gendarme stands guard next to Iranian migrants at a beach in Cesme, near the Aegean port city of Izmmore

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2015年 8月 12日 Wednesday

A Turkish gendarme stands guard next to Iranian migrants at a beach in Cesme, near the Aegean port city of Izmir, Turkey, August 11, 2015. The migrants were caught by Turkish gendarmes at a beach while they were attempting to cross to the Greek island of Chios. REUTERS/Sait Serkan Gurbuz

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Exhausted Iranian migrants rest moments after arriving by paddling an engineless dinghy from the Turkish coastmore

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2015年 8月 15日 Saturday

Exhausted Iranian migrants rest moments after arriving by paddling an engineless dinghy from the Turkish coast (seen in the background) at a beach on the Greek island of Kos August 15, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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Stranded Iranian migrant Hamid, 34, an electrical engineer from the Iranian town of Sanandij sits on rail tracmore

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2015年 11月 23日 Monday

Stranded Iranian migrant Hamid, 34, an electrical engineer from the Iranian town of Sanandij sits on rail tracks in front of Macedonian riot police guarding the border between Greece and Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni November 23, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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Exhausted Iranian migrants call for help as they paddle an engineless dinghy approaching the Greek island of Kmore

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2015年 8月 15日 Saturday

Exhausted Iranian migrants call for help as they paddle an engineless dinghy approaching the Greek island of Kos August 15, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

Al-Khansa Hospital in East Mosul may be a shell of its former self but it is still the city's main government-run maternity facility. in July alone, despite severe shortages of medicines and equipment, it delivered nearly 1,400 babies.